Ottawa

Oct. 23: Team Trudeau goes to where the opposition to its carbon tax is strongest in order to win over voters with big cheques, even as Alberta’s Rachel Notley pitches Ottawa to spend big on oil-by-rail

More respondents were disappointed with the deal than pleased with it, meaning a presumptive plus for the Liberals could be a liability

Oct. 22: Scheer test drives his campaign by zeroing in on Trudeau’s broken deficit promise, while Trudeau should do himself a big favour and release the Mark Norman documents

Oct. 19: The Conservative leader refused to say if he’d keep marijuana legal if he wins the next election, even as others argue Ottawa should now decriminalize hard drugs, too

Andrew MacDougall: Dragging out L’Affaire Norman is turning what could have been a non-issue into a mess. The truth will eventually come out.

Oct. 18: Provincial cannabis sites saw more than 100 orders per minute on day one of legal weed, while Ottawa states it will pardon previous marijuana possession charges (eventually).

There is still no timeline for Canada’s plan to pardon people for simple pot possession. And even when it happens it won’t wipe records clean.

Andrew MacDougall: Trudeau’s plan will hurt many a pocketbook, and there is a real danger in scoffing at legitimate concerns and criticism

Cannabis NB’s website shows happy people and touts weed as a part of poker games and a ’girls’ night out’. But the feds have stepped in and changes are coming

As the PM and the premiers prepare to talk interprovincial trade, our latest poll finds opinion solidly for scrapping barriers—with politically tricky regional differences